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26 Cards in this Set
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Modern Movement
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- true beginning is said to be started by Ibsen, Minegan, Zarula
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Richard Wagner
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- wrote operas
- he liked collaboration: Gesamtkunstwerk (or master art work) |
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Ubu Roi
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- written by Alfred Jarry
- the world's first absurdist drama |
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August Strindberg
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- Miss Julie
- Dream Plays - The Ghost Sonata - To Damascus |
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Benjamin Franklin Wedekind
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- wrote Spring Awakening
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Oscar Wilde
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- wrote: "The Importance of Ernest" and "Lady Windimere's Fan"
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John Millington Synge
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- wrote: "Riders to the Sea" and "The Playboy of the Western World"
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Brecht
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- associated with the Epic Theatre
- wrote: "Three Penny Opera", "Mother Courage", "Caucasian Chalk Circle" |
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Apollinaire
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- wrote "The Breasts of Tiresias"
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Antonin Artaud
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- said to be the father of theater of cruelty
- wrote: "The Theater and Its Double" |
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Lorca
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- wrote: "Blood Wedding" and "House of Bernana Alba"
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T.S. Elliot
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- wrote: "Practical Handbook of Cats", "Family Reunion" and "Murder in the Cathedral"
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Eugene O'Neil
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- wrote:"Mourning Becomes Electra", "The Hairy Ape", "The Great God Brown", and "The Fountain"
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Noel Coward
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- wrote: "Hay Fever" and "Private Lives"
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Sean O'Casey
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- wrote: "Juno and the Pavcock" and "The Plough and the Stars"
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Clifford Odets
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- wrote: "Waiting for Lefty," Awake and Sing," "Paradise Lost," and "Golden Boy."
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Thornton Wilder
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- wrote: "Our Town," "The Skin of Our Teeth," "The Merchant of Yonkers," and "The Matchmaker"
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"The New Stagecraft"
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- Robert Edmund Jones was the first Native to do set design; he's from the U.S.
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The Group Theater
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- launched by Adler, Clurman, and Misnor
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The "Little Theater" Movement
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- this led to community theatre
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Stanley McCandless
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- most influential lighting designer
- wrote: "A Method for Lighting the Stage" |
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Samuel Beckett
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- wrote: "Waiting for Godot", "Happy Days", and "Endgame"
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Vaclav Havel
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- he went from spending time in prison to becoming the President
- wrote: "Garden Party" |
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Eugene Ionesco
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- wrote: "The Bald Saprano", "The Lesson", "The Chairs", and "Rhinoceros"
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John Paul Sarte
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- wrote: "No Exit"
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Peter Weiss
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- wrote "Marat/Sade"
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